Teaching aid

a technology of speech recognition and teaching aids, applied in the field of teaching aids and voice and speech recognition, can solve the problems of dyslexics' difficulty in using speech and voice recognition technology, and the substantial obstacle of technology to their us

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-02-16
UNICUS INVESTMENTS
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[0008]An object of the present invention is to an improved applicat

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However, many people are not so conversant with language, and thus the present technology presents a substantial obstacle to them using speech a

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[0025]In a first embodiment, the present invention has certain text loaded. The text may, for example, be a story. The present invention is executed preferably in 3 stages. An introduction stage, an enrolment stage and a spelling stage. Preferably, these 3 stages are executed one after the other however, the stages may be executed individually, in various combinations or in any order.

Introduction Stage

[0026]The text or story is initially read, verbalised and / or spoken to the user by the present invention. For example a computerised text-to-speech application may be used to verbalise the text. In accordance with an aspect of invention, as the text is spoken, each particular word and / or punctuation is spoken and highlighted to ‘train’ the eye of the user to visualise the text. This stage of the invention may be truncated, restarted and / or resumed by the user as required by the user.

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[0027]After the introduction stage, the enrolment stage is preferably undertaken. In this...

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Abstract

The present invention relates to the field of voice and speech recognition, in one form, the invention relates to a teaching aid adapted to teach reading and spelling via a voice and/or speech recognition system adapted to assist persons having dyslexia. The invention also provides a mechanism to train a speech recognition system without the need for the used to read verbose passages of text.

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FIELD OF INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to the fields of teaching aids and voice and speech recognition.[0002]In one form, the invention relates to a teaching aid adapted to teach reading and spelling via a voice and / or speech recognition system adapted to assist persons having dyslexia.[0003]In another form, the present invention enables a dyslexic person to train a computer to recognise their speech patterns. It will be convenient to hereinafter describe the invention in relation to voice and speech recognition suitable for persons with dyslexia, however it should be appreciated that the present invention is not limited to that use only.BACKGROUND ART[0004]Throughout this specification the use of the word “inventor” in singular form may be taken as reference to one (singular) inventor or more than one (plural) inventor of the present invention.[0005]Various voice and speech recognition applications have been developed. One example is the Dragon™ voice recognition app...

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IPC IPC(8): G09B17/00
CPCG09B17/006G10L2015/0638G10L15/22
Inventor KING, PETER LAWRENCE
Owner UNICUS INVESTMENTS
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